AGED WIDOW DROWNED
DISAPPEARED FROM HOME FOUND FLOATING IN RIVER Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Mrs. Christina Smith, aged S 4, a widow, an inmate of the Christchurch Jubilee Home, was drowned in the Heath cote River this morning. She disappeared from the home at an early hour clad only in her night attire. Her body was found later in the morning floating in the river a few hundred yards from the home. ' At the inquest today nurses on the staff of the home stated that Mrs. Smith seemed normal this morning, but she had reached a condition of senile decay, and had to be watched carefully. The magistrate said it appeared that Mrs. Smith did not know what she was doing. He returned a verdict of found drowned, stating that all possible care had been taken by the staff of the institution, and no blame was attachable to it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 16
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149AGED WIDOW DROWNED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 16
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